Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...street-front rooms where the slaughter took place. At one point, a neighbor-blonde Tammy Sioukoff, 20, another student nurse who lived near by-rang the doorbell, hoping to borrow a couple of slices of bread to make a sandwich for her boy friend; the killer kept the girls quiet by advising them: "Don't be afraid! I'm not going to kill you." Miss Sioukoff went away...
...chief foe of Chairman Mao Tse-tung and his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The renewed attacks on Liu showed that Mao and his followers have not yet succeeded in winning the day; they also signaled a new phase in China's upheaval after several weeks of comparative quiet...
...West Pointer who served twelve years in the U.S. Air Force, Salter came late to fiction. "I was not always a writer," he says, "but perhaps I was always becoming one." There are bestselling novelists who could learn from this cool and quiet book...
...goal is quick results--no compromise. It is better to lose with a brave manifesto never achieved than to secure quiet success buried in ambiguities. There is little endurance. And, if there is defeat, escape into private experiences and fantasies always lies ahead...
...case himself. A onetime amateur boxer who was Cassius Clay's manager at the 1960 Olympics, Becker has a broken nose, scar tissue around his eyes-and a brain-jolting jab in his fists. A boy who abuses a teacher will be challenged by his principal to a quiet meeting behind closed doors. The problem is usually solved after Becker flattens the youth with a left cross. For purposes of keeping the girls in line, Becker keeps a paddle, with illustrations on one side of the appropriate place for its application...